Courts and International Protection
In the ‘Courts and International Protection’ series, the blog draws from the work of members of the RLI Working Group on the Role of Courts in Shaping Access to Asylum. The series features analysis of decisions and approaches adopted by international, regional, and domestic courts (and quasi-judicial adjudicative bodies) in refugee and asylum related cases.
Courts, strategic litigation on asylum law and the rule of law
Blog post by Kris van der Pas, postdoctoral researcher at Tilburg University * During the 2024 RLI Annual Conference, one of the key issues discussed by multiple speakers was the (now all-but-abandoned) UK plan to send asylum seekers, who arrive irregularly, to...
Indefinite detention is finally declared unlawful in Australia: what next?
Blog post by Júlia Zomignani Barboza, a PhD Researcher at Fundamental Rights Research Centre, Vrije Universiteit Brussel In November 2023, the High Court of Australia ruled that indefinite immigration detention is unlawful in a landmark decision overturning its...
Child-Friendly Judgments in Belgian Asylum Appeals
Blog post by Sara Lembrechts, PhD researcher at Ghent University, Migration Law Research Group [1] This article reflects on the pioneering work of some Belgian asylum judges to include child-friendly language in eight of their judgments. Indeed, children and young...